Can I pick a winner by hand?

You could... You're more than welcome to pick a winner by hand if you'd like, but if you do, you'll have to announce the winner on the outside of the widget. In order to have a winner displayed on the Rafflecopter widget when your giveaway is over, they must be selected by Rafflecopter on the 'entries' tab randomly by clicking 'add a winner'.

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Ken Kramer
May 30, 2014 00:45

Once the winner is selected through Rafflecopter, how does the Winner's name appear. Do you use their full name? Or just the first name, last initial, which is what I prefer? Also, how do they submit their shipping address to receive their prize? Can that be done through Rafflecopter? Or do I figure that out separately?

Hey Ken - when winners are chosen and displayed on the widget, you'll see their first name and last initial only. As far as contacting the winners, we recommend that you email them at the address they've provided to collect the information you need to award the prize.

When we need to collect shipping information, we send all the winners an email with a link to a form they can fill out that asks for their address.

The functionality has changed since I used Rafflecopter last year. I'm all for letting the app pick my winner randomly but I do some checks first (seeing if they told the truth, e.g. signing up to newsletter). Unfortunately, if readers lie, I have to remove them from the winners' list but I can't cross them out anymore? :-(

how to I disqualify a winner if there is no disqualify button?? I have disqualified 4 winners picked because they didn't fulfil what the winning entry, but the app does not allow me to select another winner, so i would like to give the winning back to the first two picked but I am not able to disqualified the last two. I only have two prizes but now there are three winners. Please advise!

While there isn't a way to add that particular entry back in, my best recommendation is to manually add an entry into the giveaway so they'll still be able to receive credit and have the chance to be chosen again. Here's an article that describes how to do this in more detail:

How can I get rafflecopter to randomly draw and announce a winner who has the correct answer to my question posed as the Facebook competition ? Our competition is to correctly guess the special guest artist coming to our carnival next year and people will be putting down various singers' and/or bands' names. How can I select a pool of contestants that choose "Band X" or "Singer Y" or whatever ? Thanks for your assistance.

Oh, I guess I could randomly pick a winner and see if they have the right answer, deleting them if they don't. Repeat and continue until a winner with the right answer is chosen, and then follow the normal steps. Sound reasonable ?